Piano Trio World Premiere Highlights the CMP Concert

Two 20th Century chamber works, the world premiere of a new piano trio by Jane Brockman, plus a Baroque chamber piece headline Chamber Music Palisades concert on Tuesday, March 25 at 8 p.m., at St. Matthew’s, 1031 Bienveneda. In addition to Brockman’s work, the program features selections by Quantz, Poulenc and Joaqu’n Turina performed by Leslie Reed, oboe; Judith Farmer, bassoon; Mark Menzies, violin; John Walz, cello; Susan Greenberg, flute; and Delores Stevens, piano. KUSC’s Alan Chapman is the evening’s host. The concert opens with a Baroque flourish via Johann Joachim Quantz’s (1697-1773) Trio for Oboe, Flute and Piano performed by Stevens and Greenberg, co-founders and co-artistic directors of Chamber Music Palisades, and Reed, principal oboe of the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra since 1987. Changing the pace considerably, Reed, Stevens and Farmer”principal bassoon of the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra and former principal bassoon with the Austrian Radio Orchestra”continue with a Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano, written in 1926 by French composer Francis Poulenc. Music by Poulenc (1899-1963), a 20th century master, derived its influence from the Dada movement. The program concludes with two piano trios including the world premiere of a new piano trio by American composer Jane Brockman (b. 1949), a Santa Monica resident and the first woman to earn a doctorate in music composition in the University of Michigan’s 150-year history. Brockman taught music theory and composition at the University of Connecticut for nine years, and, after a composer-fellowship at Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute, Brockman left her Connecticut post and resettled in Santa Monica, where she began scoring for film and television and now focuses exclusively on concert music. The other piano trio is by Joaqu’n Turina (1882-1949), a native of Seville, Spain, whose work was greatly influenced by traditional Andalusian music. Both piano trios will be performed by accomplished talents Menzies, Walz and Stevens. Tickets are $25; students with ID are free. Contact: (310) 459-2070 or visit www.cmpalisades.org.